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E. PAULUS.

Watch Key.

N0. 70,465. Patented Nov. 5, 1867.

NS 7 A Q N-PETERS PHOTO-LITMOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

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EUGENE PAULUS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 70,465, dated November 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATCH-KEYS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EUGENE PAULUS, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Combination of Watch-Key and Watch-Case Pusher, to be used as push-piece to open the watch, and also to wind it up, which is placed at the pendent-bow, like the so-called self-winders, and held in a peculiar manner by a screw, which allows it to be taken ofi' easily to wind the watch as usual, and to be put again in place, to be used as before said, to open it; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and correct description of the construction and operation of the same, references being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents the pendent-bow of the watch-case and the head of the key screwed in place.

Figures 2 and 3 represent the different views of the key taken out of the watch.

As it may be seen in fig. 2, the head A. of the key has a screw, B, by means of which it is held in the pendant of the watch. -C is the tube or pipe of the key, which passes through the said pendant, and, acting by its extremity D on the case-spring as the push-piece, causes the watch to open as usual. The tube or pipe C passes also, by its other extremity F, through the head A of the key, in which it moves freely, being held by the pinscrew E, which plays .in a hole, of which the size limits the movement. At the extremity D is the square of the pipe to wind the watch, and the extremity F is the pusher, yielding to the finger when opening the case. Fig. 3 is a section of the key which shows the whole length and shape of the pipe G H, made out of brass or hardened steel, and part of it passing through the head A. of the key I. J is the profile of the pin-screw, made out of hardened steel and fixed across the pipe, of which, as before said, the movement is limited by the hole across the head-screw of the key, the depth of the winding square being seen in G.

Therefore, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A combined watch-key and pushpiece, which is made a steady part of the case, the head or winding crown being directly screwed in the pendant, leaving the pipe free and movable, so as to act on the case-spring to open the watch, and also to wind it up by taking it out, the whole constructed and operating substantially as described.

Philadelphia, June 20, 1867.

E. PAULUS. Witnesses JOHN WHITE, GUSTVAV. GIcoN. 

